AMD Radeon R9 370X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Compare AMD Radeon R9 370X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

946 points

974 points

2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

22 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

22 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

7 FPS

11 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

25893 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

12659 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

980 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

941 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1030 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

967 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

179.2 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

120 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

100 W

79% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

32.96 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

27.08 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

82.4 Gigatexels/s

108.3 Gigatexels/s

31% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.64 TFLOPS

1% slightly better floating point performance

2.60 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

1344

5% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

40% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

268th of 586

267th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon R9 370X vs GeForce GTX 870M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 870M graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 370X in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon R9 370X has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon R9 370X also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 870M has a significantly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the Radeon R9 370X at 180 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 870M is better than the Radeon R9 370X.